By Louise SandersHarry Styles has sparked a Twitter racism row among One Direction fans after posing in a Native American headpiece for an Instagram shot.

The 20-year-old pop heartthrob threw on in a feathered war bonnet, traditionally worn in battle and for ceremonial occasions, in an artistic black and white snap, which was promptly uploading to the social networking site.

By Alexis RhiannonHarry Styles Native American headdress photo March 2014A funny thing happened on the world wide web today--Harry Styles changed his profile picture on Twitter to a photo of himself wearing a Native American headdress, and suddenly the internet imploded.

First it imploded with a bunch of people asking him to take it down, because they felt it was an appropriation of the Native American culture. And while there were some rude responses sprinkled in there, for the most part, it was people very politely asking that he select another photo. Some people did throw out the word ‘racist’, but regardless, they were largely calm, measured responses just basically being like, “Dude, not cool, please take it down and think it over in the future.”

Comment: The main difference between this and the Christina Fallin controversy are 1) Styles or someone took down the photo in a couple of hours--as soon as people started criticizing it on Twitter. 2) Styles didn't offer a tone-deaf faux-pology trying to justify his actions. As Fallin's case proves, the "apology" is often worse than the offense.